Management
Anurag Agrawal
Senior Vice President, Investment Banking
Anurag has been part of a pioneering team of individuals involved in conceptualizing and executing the franchising of microfinance across India.
At Intellecap, he specifically focuses on assisting early stage multiple bottom-line (social, environmental and financial) enterprises in accessing growth capital in the form of equity investments.[More]
He has been involved in carrying out valuations for most of the leading microfinance institutions in India and has also assisted some of these institutions in their fund raising efforts.
Anurag gained valuable experience with
ICICI Bank prior to joining Intellecap.
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Aparajita Agrawal
Vice President, Knowledge & Insights
Aparajita joined Intellecap as one of its first employees in 2004. Today she oversees assignments and initiatives related to content and event management, knowledge building, and social entrepreneurship driven by the Knowledge & Insights Group.[More]
More specifically, Aparajita manages Intellecap’s publications – Microfinance Insights and Beyond Profit, and Intellecap’s sector-focused annual events – Srijan and Sankalp. She is also responsible for the knowledge portal, Microfinance Gateway that Intellecap manages for
CGAP/World Bank, and for organizing industry-based theme events.
Before joining Intellecap, Aparajita worked with
CARE India for two years on microfinance and livelihoods initiatives.
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Atreya Rayaprolu
Vice President, Investment Banking
Atreya’s focus at Intellecap is investment banking services. He has led multiple engagements with international funds, identifying investment potential in various sectors that positively impact social development.[More]
Atreya also works closely with enterprises to develop and maintain long-term strategic advisory relationships. He advises clients on structuring social venture capital funds.
Atreya has led the ‘India Development Gateway’ initiative, incubated within Intellecap that focuses on facilitating capital allocation to scalable enterprises with a positive social or environmental impact. This initiative uses an innovative model of co-investments that attempts to bring a diverse international investor community into the development space.
His expertise is investment advisory and he has a deep understanding of technology. Before joining Intellecap, he was with
ICICI Bank, structuring and raising offshore funds for investments in Small and Medium Enterprises (
SME) in emerging economies.
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Manju Mary George
Vice President, Strategic Consulting
Manju leads the Strategic Consulting team. She brings on board extensive experience in facilitating promotion of financial services delivery and enterprise development among low-income producer and consumer segments. [More]
Manju works on development of business strategy and operations planning for entrepreneurs, investors, foundations, corporate entities and bankers, who focus on multiple bottom-line spaces such as microfinance, rural livelihoods, healthcare, sustainable energy, agri-business, water, and sanitation.
Prior to joining Intellecap, Manju was a consultant with Kudumbashree, a state level microfinance, micro enterprise, and livelihoods initiative of the Government of Kerala. There, she was involved in strategic planning, implementation, and performance monitoring of microfinance and micro enterprise operations and in liaising with market players, community representatives, and policy makers.
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Shree Ravindranath
Associate Vice President, Human Resources and Administration
Shree has been associated with Intellecap since 2005, as part of the team that started the company’s office in Hyderabad (India). She has been involved in business development and delivery of consulting projects in her previous roles, and currently contributes to bringing scale to the company and implementing the systems that support growth.[More]
As a development professional, Shree has worked to understand the relationship between socio-economic change, social entrepreneurship, and employment in the formal and informal labor markets.
Her experience at the grassroots includes implementing and studying livelihoods and enterprise development programs. She continues to be involved in the design and execution of studies that showcase the impact of myriad development interventions.
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Siddharth Sharma
Head, Technology Solutions
At Intellecap, Siddharth handles the technology consulting and web application programming verticals. Siddharth started his career with the European Securitization Group of Deutsche Bank, based in London. [More]
On his return to India, prior to joining Intellecap, Siddharth worked as the head of the mortgage analytics desk at the Global Markets Center, the off-shoring arm of Deutsche Bank.
Siddharth has also been an entrepreneur, founding SmartMonkey Software Pvt. Ltd., where he has developed software that helps make daily challenges simpler to overcome.
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Ulhas Deshpande
CEO, IntelleCash
Ulhas has over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and in various service sector companies. He has worked in healthcare, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), banking and financial services, information technology enabled services (ITES), and business process outsourcing (BPO).[More]
Ulhas started Adventity
BPO India Private Limited, a venture funded company, where he was Chief Operating Officer (
COO).
Prior to Adventity, Ulhas worked as the Head of Human Resources for
IDBI Bank, and with American International Group (
AIG) in India in the financial sector domain. He has also held senior human resources positions with Glaxo, Novartis, and Parke Davis in the consumer care sector.
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